Newspaper Is No Longer In Paper

E-book readers, emails and other such digital facilities are making paper redundant to an extent. But the one area that I’m not ready to compromise is the Newspaper. My morning ritual of fixing my coffee and curling up with the papers is under threat from the In Newspaper. Yeah, yeah, it does have the perks of an inbuilt alarm clock and fresh content from a choice of global papers, but imagine carrying the flexible display to the loo, where many of us read it while we take a crap! Designers: Seon-Keun Park & Byung-Min Woo

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Why not use E-Ink? You’ll never be able to pack enough batteries into that thing to drive a lit display bright enough to be readable in direct sunlight. E-Ink is perfectly readable in direct sunlight and uses no battery power at all once the page has been drawn, it’s the ideal option for an electronic newspaper.

Batteries inside the house is a thing of the past; if these guys get their way: http://www.witricity.com/ In about a year in-door devices no longer need to pack those expensive and environmentally damaging batteries.

With wireless power ready and installed within one or two years, our home should be just about ready for the sans-battery e-reader hitting the big times.

i find it very interesting how people are always concerned about the environmental and economic issues, but mostly forgets about the social dimension of sustainability. if this concept goes on, have anyone here thought how many people would go jobless? think of all stakeholders that are involved in newspaper industry. from the person who produces paper, ink, printers, until the delivery boy, and finally the recycling collector. how many people do you think would go jobless?

How about the simple social issues with respect to picking up your paper at the corner store?

Seems like everyone wants to invent a future where we all live in our little bubbles and socialize virtually through machines. Reminds me of the tubby humans in Wall-e – which were perhaps only one step away from being jacked in directly like the Matrix.

but think of social dimension in technology-enabled services. we’re moving from manual to digital labor. those who produced inks and papers will be producing the plastic and electronic parts. delivery boy of the future will be the programmer delivering the news. recycling collector will of course recycle the plastic (this machine runs on recycling plastic).